The Negotiating Routes – Ecologies of the Byways project invited artists and artists groups to propose projects which are site-specific and have an inter-disciplinary approach that combines research and art creation by artists and local communities, addressing the visible and invisible transformations currently taking place in their immediate environments.
For this project I chose to travel to a small town in the upper Himalayas, Chamba; here I spent two months collaborating with a community radio station (henvalvani). During the two months in Chamba I was able to collect home remedies and help Henvalvani set up their first web presence on wordpress.
The idea was to work with Henvalvani CR station to produce a radio programme of Gharelu nuskhe & Muft ki salah (home remedies and free advice) from and for the community of listeners that this radio station has cultivated in the valley over the past twelve years. I was able to converse with over sixty people from nine villages in the region of Chamba in Tehri Garhwal and collect home remedies that have been edited into thirty small radio programmes of one minute duration each. These will be broadcast in-between the regular radio shows on 90.4 Mhz Henvalvani Radio as an advertising campaign to popularize the use of local medicinal plants and bring into focus the fast depleting Himalayan eco system.
Home remedies and free advise from Chamba.
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